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Unfortunately for Photobucket users, things have changed in a big way as of June 26th they are rolling out a $399 per year subscription fee for those who want to hotlink images from Photobucket’s servers to display elsewhere.
This does not mean it only affects this site, It now means that billions of images across the Web now display an error message instead of the image in question. :(
https://barrreport.com/threads/attention-photobucket-users.14377/

Could it be the moonlights? I have four of these (3-LED each) pointed up into the hood:

They provide enough light to see colors in the tank. The weird thing is, the difformis is growing larger leaves *behind* the eggcrate. They were added sometime in the middle of dealing with this new water. Hmmm...

Looks like it might have been the traces. When starting with 100% RO, is the baseline level that much lower than already 'soft' tapwater? I gave the tank a big gulp of Flourish last night, enough to cause a haze, oops, and the h. difformis is already responding.

Reading various recommendations, it looks like a 5ml (1 teaspoon) dose of Flourish per day is closer to what is needed for a high light CO2 injected 90 gallon. I was only dosing two teaspoons a week, the high end recommended by Seachem.

BTW, does that haze after big dosing Flourish mean the traces have precipitated out, and if so are they permanently lost, or does that provide a 'buffer' level?

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